Psychology

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Rorschach, Research and Wikipedia

Dr. John Grohol | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Wikipedia, Aps, Psychology, Rorschach, Apa, Inkblot, Wikipedia Rorshach, Rorschach Test, Living News

If anybody wanted that badly to see what the Rorschach inkblots looked like, they could easily already do so. What Wikipedia has done is to simply make the viewing much easier, bringing it into the public spotlight.

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Georgetown Professor Richard America Joins the Conversation about the Gates Arrest

Emma Coleman Jordan | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychology, Beer Summit, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Race Relations, Politics News

The Gates-Crowley controversy offers an opportunity to gain a takeaway that might be beneficial far beyond police-citizen relations, or even black-white relations: regular mental health checks.

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The Four Noble Truths

Noah Levine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

The Buddha taught that life by its very nature is unsatisfactory, that some level of difficulty exists for all unenlightened beings in creation.

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Sleep: Your Safeguard Against Anxiety

Psychology Today | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Insomnia, Psychology, Anxiety, Health, Sleep, Living News

At some point, nearly everyone struggles to sleep. Tips on how to get your snooze schedule back on track and on how to avoid sleepless nights. ...

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The Language Of Facial Expressions: Obama's Non-Verbal Reactions To Gates

ABC News | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mccain-Facial-Expressions, Obama Facial Expressions, Emotion, Relationships, Women's Health, Lie to Me, Lie to Me Paul Ekman, Men's Health, Psychology, Body Language, Facial Expressions, Paul Ekman, The Inner Life, Living News

The truth, according to the popular television show "Lie to Me," is "written all over our faces," but psychologists say that visual clues are only one...

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Sad And Small, Happy And Tall: How Height Relates To Happiness

TIME | Sean Gregory | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Short People Less Happy, Short, Psychology, Tall, Tall People Happier, Confidence, Height, Happiness, Living News

Damn you, tall people. They block your view at the movie theater. They're a pain to shop for: Who really wants to drag themselves to the Big & Tall to...

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Balanced Life -- 9 Tips For Having A Good, Bad Day

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Emotion, Happiness, Living News

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Nine tips for having a good bad day. A few days ago, I was extremely upset. It's too complicated to expla...

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The Four Noble Truths of the Revolutionary Path to Freedom

Noah Levine | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

The first teachings the Buddha gave after his enlightenment were the four noble truths. This giving of the truths is often referred to as the setting in motion of the wheel of Dharma.

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Gut Feelings: Soldiers Make Good Use Of Intuition

nytimes.com | Benedict Carey | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers, Battle, US Soldiers, Brain, Iraq War, Intuition, Psychology, Battle Intuition, The Inner Life, Living News

The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows ...

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TIME Article on Eco-Therapy

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Stress, Depression, Environment, Psychology, Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy, Eco-Therapy, Anxiety, Therapy, Nature, Green News

It's tremendously encouraging to find renewed interest in the relationship between the human mind and the rest of nature.

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Codependency Pt 2: An Incomplete Sense of Self

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Acoas, Psychology, Codependency, Acoa, Codependence, Raising Children, Personal-Boundaries, Behavioral Psychology, Living News

When the attachment with a parent is fraught with fear, the child can become overly preoccupied with getting it right for the parent rather than for themselves.

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How To Ask For Help

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, Psychology, Relationships, Help, Happiness, The Balanced Life, Living News

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...

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To "Friend" or "Defriend"? That is the Question

David Finkle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Language, Psychology, Neologisms, Relationships, Ending Friendship, English Language, Facebook "Friending" And "Defriending, Living News

If you ask me, one of the worst things assaulting the English language in the last few years is the transitive verb "friended."

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The American Psychological Association and Torture: The Day the Tide Turned

Bryant Welch | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, American Psychological Association, Psychology, Interrogation, Bush Administration, Torture, Politics News

How the APA turned psychology away from humanitarian values is a study in organizational failure and professional disaster.

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Different Friendship Styles For Boys And Girls: Study

TIME | John Cloud Friday, Jul. 17, 2009 | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Adolescence, Sexes, Sexist, Sexism, Psychology, Best Friend, Friendship and Gender, The Inner Life, Study, Gender, Living News

Pardon the sexism, but a question: Why are girls so girly? For the better part of the past half-century, feminists, their opponents and armies of aca...

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Ask Maddisen - How To Enjoy The Wisdom Of Your Inner Child

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Ask Maddisen, Psychology, Therapy, Wisdom, Inner Child, Living News

Speaking aloud in a loving voice, say "hi" to your inner child and let him know that you'd like to have a talk. Be still.

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Why I Love Self-Help Books (Even Though They Don't Work)

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Fiction, Healing, Psychology, Beauty, Poetry, Relaxation, Self-Help, Jerry Springer, Living News

Don't you just love those exclamation marks? Well, maybe you don't, but I do. I love the perkiness. I love the confidence. I love the lack of ambiguity.

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Finding The Language Of Art

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Art, Feminism, Truth, Living News

I am beginning a new voyage into unknown territory - the worldly dimension of Art. I feel as though I was handed a flashlight in a dark room and beckoned to begin to explore.

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A Mindful Take on Screening for Postpartum Depression

Cassandra Vieten | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Pregnancy, Psychology, Parenting, Postpartum Depression, Mindfulness, Living News

There is a heck of a lot of unaddressed psychological distress during pregnancy and postpartum.

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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince's Happiness Lessons

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Friendship, The Balanced Life, Novelty, Psychology, Harry Potter, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Home News

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...

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Have We Learned Anything? The Effect of the Recession on the Future American Psyche

Stephen Josephson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: The Future, 2008 Recession, Psychology, Indulgences, Mental Health, Consumer Spending, US Recession, Living News

It seems as if a subset of people are actually achieving a fundamental shift from acquiring stuff to focusing on family, friends and keeping it simple.

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Is the World Ready for a Positive Psychology?

Amy Tardio | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Positive Outlook, Positive Thinking, Positive Psychology, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Living News

Positive Psychology has the potential to impact our heath, energy levels, passion, enjoyment, ability to focus, connect, be resilient, hopeful and loved; otherwise known as our ability to thrive.

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The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.

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In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Shadow, Carol Smaldino, Holocaust, Carol-Smaldino, Genocide, Psychologists, CIA Torture, Psychology, Human Rights Abuses, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Carl-Jung, Torture, Abu Ghraib, World News

With a kind of paranoia, we deny and project parts of ourselves: in the meantime over the course of history we have felt justified in blaming, hating, fearing, conquering and even torturing.

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Making the Best of the Worst

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Psychology, Healing, Emotion, Resilience Psychology, Stories, Resilience, Living News

Some people I know are exquisitely sensitive. Every hurt, harm, or horror imprints their impressionable soul(s). Meanwhile others laugh it off, tough it out, shut down, deny, or resolutely move on.

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